Hi Ketchapay, (and everyone else who asked about git support at some point)
I understand the desire for a nice graphical git client, but Versions isn't it. Git is an entirely different beast than Subversion. For starters it's decentralized, but I probably don't have to tell you that. Adding git support to Versions would be like adding html and css editing to iWork's Pages, it would feel like a kludge; the application's interaction model doesn't fit with the model of that particular task at all. Versions' aim is to keep as much of the complexity of SVN out of your way as possible, but the way it works is nonetheless modeled with that complexity in mind. One thing I personally like about Versions, why I haven't switched back to the command-line for my everyday work, is that it doesn't try to replace the way Subversion works with some other vision of how version control should work. Our goal is to make working with Subversion at a whole easier, more pleasant, and more straightforward. Part of that is educating people a bit about Subversion —evidenced most concretely in the Versions help files, but more importantly in how we stick as closely as possible to Subversion's terminology for commands and all that, as well as bigger design decisions like how Versions shows working copy bookmarks nested in repository bookmarks—, ideally, a seasoned Versions user should be much more comfortable with the SVN command line client than someone who never used Versions. That in itself is enough of a challenge without making Versions deal transparently with the immense differences between SVN and git. For these reasons and because we believe that really good apps do one thing and do it extremely well, we won't be adding git support to Versions any time soon. If we ever embark on creating a git client it would most likely be an entirely different app. I sincerely doubt we would be able to re-use any significant amount of code and designs created for Versions in such an application. Since we have our hands full with our current project and an obligation to our customers to keep improving it, as much and as fast as we can, I hope that while we keep making the best Mac Subversion client even better, someone else will step up and create a really good Mac git client. Cheers, - Dirk the Versions team On Nov 20, 10:31 am, Ketchapay Ramirez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When will you add Git support? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Versions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/versions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
